The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-13

condltion-fat, thriving hogs seldom suffer
much from lice. Feed well-keep salt. ashes
and charcoal within reach, and occasionally
| give little copperas and turpentne in food,
ana you will not be troubled with lice,
! .. That depends almost entirely upon pasture
and feeding These large breeds have been
perfected upon high feeding, and will die out
on poor pastures If well fed they will thrive
| south as well as north
4. From fifty dollars upward. A noted short
norm COW was sold some years ago for $4,000
A. A. N, Broad Ca: First-I notice good many
farmers have way of putting cotton-seed in their
Staples during the fall. Is there anything gained
by II? If so, what? Second-I have large pile of
sawdust near my house. have been told that it is
| goou 10 put in horse stable What do you think
| ABOUT II? is 1t as good as straw or leaves?
L. futtlng cotton seed i'll stables is con-
| ventent method of killing the seed, without
danger OF overheating and consequent loss.
| 10 secure this. however, care must be taken
| that the seed do not get under the trough, or
III the corner and along the edges of the stall,
Where they will remain dry and unchanged.
From time to time those in these situations
must be thrown in middle of stall, where they
| Will get mixed with wet manure. The seed
make very good absorbent for the urine, and
used in place of straw or leaves, render the
trated. Moreover, it is always good policy to
mix together different kinds of manure: one
corrects some defect in the other. If properly
managed, therefore, the practice of putting
seed in stalls is good one.
2. Sawdust has little or no manurial value
Is not worth the handling, except as litter to
Keep stalls dry. Straw and leaves have de-
decided manurial value, and are good absorb
ents also. BY all means use the straw and
leaves in preference to sawdust. The latter
may sometimes be used to advantage in loosen
ing up very stiff soils. Mixed with clay, it
opens it and lets air and water penetrate more
easily. When old and we'll rotted, it may be
used as mulch for strawberries, Irish pota-
toes, etc.
J. B. c., Milledgeville, Ca: I have piece of
land about eight acres, that lies in the form of
basin; about four oft does not produce well
on account of excess ofmoisture or ponding and it
is impracticable to drain by ditching I have been
advised to dig well until sand is struck that the
sand would absorb the excess of water What do
You think of plan? Is there any fertilizer that will
be OF advantage? Crops planted it very back
ward in spring and hard to get stand of corn or
| cotton oats and peas do best on it
| Sometimes basins are very thoroughly drain
ed by sinking wells This is moro likely to be
because, in such regions there are numerous
underground streams which if tapped, or even
approached, carry water off quite rapidly. In
all regions there are underground streams,
more or less. This is shown by the water
veins which supply wells. But they are not
| as large and do not flow as freely as those in
limestone localities. 1t would not be neeessa-
ny to sink a well of any extra size to test the
matter, and you are advised to try it. If you
do not encounter rock, the venture will not
cost more than ten or fifteen dollars
Dig well in lowest spot. Veins of
| sand or gravel indicate underground streams.
| Water flows through them, and has carried off
the finer earth originally mixed with the sand
and gravel. The water that flows and seeps
in your well will run off in these sandy cham
nels and make its exit from the earth some
where spring. In this sense the sand will
absorb the water of the basin. AS long as the
soil is undrained there is no fertilizer that will
correct the trouble or do much good. If
drained, lining would probably be beneficial.
Oats want good deal Of moisture in the soil,
and therefore do well-peas make their growth
late in the season, after the soil naturally dries
off good deal. If you fail in your attempt to
drain the land, you might utilize it with profit
by sowing it down in herds grass, which de-
lights in damp soils.
With Yorkville, S. G: wish to make a fer
tilizer for cotton for the next year. to consist of
| $50 pounds pure acid phosphate, 40 pounds kainit
and so pounds cotton seed meal the total 300 pounds,
to be applied to one acre. Would it be best to
| q nineinch straight shovel and follow in same
row with fourinch scooter, and open after scooter
with straight shovel and put $50 pounds to the
acre down, and bed on it, and at planting time put
in the other $50 pounds, or put all in at once
deep as practicable? l think my mixture well
suited to the land.
Put $50 pounds in furrow first made and liston
it, Then put 70 pounds of fertilizer in each
list furrow and complete bed. This is prefera-
BILE to putting all in first furrow. If soil or eli
mate is such that cotton grows off slowly at
first it Is we'll to put little fertilizer in drill
with the seed-50 pounds to the acre is enough
in such case. $50 pounds might be put in drill,
| 80 pounds in each list furrow, and 80 pounds
| reserved to be put in with the seed.
J.HW Amercus, Ca: What is the best way to
break sweedand in spring. 1t seems to me that to
wait UNTIL spring the weeds would not be decayed
| enough, but what they would lie n great deal of
| trouble in rebedding want to put land in cotton
and fertilize with guano.
If the weeds are very rank and much in the
way, take heavy brush and run over them
until they are broken up. This is best done
during hard freeze, succeeding rain. The
wet, frozen stalks are then more brittle than
at any other time. Land covered with a heavy
coat of crab grass can also be plowed more
easily after the passage of a brush, as the grass
will be quite decidedly cut up and cominin-
uted.
A. II. W., Chestnut Grove: Please tell me
the best time to open silo and howmuch ought to be
exposed at one time built sio according to your
direction no doors in the SIDE ensage to be taken
from the top. Also in what quantity it should be
fed.
Ensilage may be used in a few weeks after
it is made. The only object in delay is to let
the mass settle fully and get compact, SO that
air will not penetrate when it is eing taken
out About 40 pounds day, in combination
with some dry forage, is. the usual quantity
given a COW. This is about two-thrds Of a
cube foot when in its compressed state. If the
silo is feet square and ensilage to the depth
of four inches be taken from the whole top
every day, it would at above rate feed thirty
two COWS. The silo ought TO be divided with
compartments, the size Of each to be regulated
by number Of cattle to be fed, as the enslage
should be taken from the whole top Of a COM